Blake Garretson wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2015 7:40 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> I need to add a footnote between [2] and [3], but I don't want to have to
>> renumber the following 997 footnotes by hand. Is there something I can
>> do, within the syntax of ReST itself, to help?
>
> I would use a regular expression to find and replace all the numbers with
> the auto-numbering feature. So something like "\[\d+\]_" should be
> replaced with "\[#\]_".
With labeled autonumbers:
>>> text = """\
... blah blah blah [1]_ and blah blah blah [2]_.
... blah blah [3]_ blah ... blah blah
... blah blah [999]_.
...
... .. [1] fe
... .. [2] fi
... .. [3] fo
... ...
... .. [999] fum
... """
>>> print(re.compile(r"\[(\d+)\]").sub(r"[#n\1]", text))
blah blah blah [#n1]_ and blah blah blah [#n2]_.
blah blah [#n3]_ blah ... blah blah
blah blah [#n999]_.
.. [#n1] fe
.. [#n2] fi
.. [#n3] fo
...
.. [#n999] fum
Changing numbers to make room for a new footnote is not much harder (but
less convenient as you have to repeat it for every new footnote):
>>> def replace(match, n=2):
... index = int(match.group(1))
... if index >= n:
... index += 1
... return "[{}]".format(index)
...
>>> print(re.compile(r"\[(\d+)\]").sub(replace, text))
blah blah blah [1]_ and blah blah blah [3]_.
blah blah [4]_ blah ... blah blah
blah blah [1000]_.
.. [1] fe
.. [3] fi
.. [4] fo
...
.. [1000] fum
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